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June 12, 1923.I

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Filedjune' 8. 1922 Patented Je l2, i923.

HENRY F. SCOTT, OF FRAMNGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNGR T DENNISDN MANU- hi A COMPANY, 0F FRINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, A COREGRTIN 0F TAG.

Application filed June 8,

.Taall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. Soo'rr, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Framingham, in -the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful improvements in Tags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tags of the kind adapted to .be attached to ya bale, bundle,

article of baggage or other storage or shipping package for the usual purpose of affording a place for a shipping direction, identifying the consignee, consignor or owner, or otherwise furnishing a blank for an address, a direction, a number, or other Written or printed word, sign or identification character applicable to the package, or to those from or to whom the ackage is in 2e transit, or to whom it may be ong; and to a method of making such tags.

A principal object of the invention 1s to improve the relation to the leaf, sheet or body of the tag of the means relied upon to attach the tag to the package, bundle or bale to which it 1s applied.

-A further-obJect of the invention is to -provide a composite leaf, sheet or surface consisting of an extent of sheet material and a part to receive the attaching means which will serve the purpose of providing a joint or contact of increased resistance to rupture between the attaching means and-the sheet material constituting the tag proper, and

which will at. the same time provide means for identifying the package, the consignor or the consignee, adapted to be retained by the attaching means if the remainder of 'the leaf or sheet material constituting the body 4:0 of the .tag shall be defaced or destroyed.

. further object of the invention is 'to provide `a reinforcement for tags in such relation to a exible attachment filament, wire or cord as to avoid breakage of the attaching fila- I ment, separation of the attaching filament from the tag, or both, under strains which would be sufficient to accomplish one or the other or both of these effects if the construction subjected to 'the strain in question were that of the prior art. I

ri`he invention is such as to permit a inode of assembling the various parts, and especially of assembling the filamentous attach- 1922. Serial No. 566,834.

lustrate certain forms only of species corresponding to the genus ofthe invention.

`Fig.. 1 is a front elevation of a complete tag according to 'the invention, also showinone step in the mode of manufacture;

ig. 2 is a side elevation of the tag shown in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a modified form of tag;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the form of tag shownin Fig. 3; A

Fig. 5 is an elevation of a tag showing a reinforcement of modified form;

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section showing a reinforcement ofstill another form;

Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section showing a reinforcement of another form;

Fig. Sis a perspective illustrating one step in the method of making the tag shown in Fig. 1; and i Fig. 9 is a similar'view illustrating a step Yin the method of making the form of tag illustrated in Fig. 3. v

Referring now toFigs. 1 and 2, the tag shown comprises a body 1, which may be further supplemented by extensions or coupons 2 (for instance, for the retained check, for checking baggage) in any desired number, separated by suitable weakened lines 3; and also comprises a reinforcement 5 of substantial size at one end of the body 1. As shown in Figs. l and 2, this-reinforcement may consist of two pieces of paper, paper board, fibre, laminated fabric, cloth, or metal attached to opposite faces of the end of the body .1; as shown in Fig. 3, such reinforcement may be a round body orbodies 6; as shown in Fig. 5, it maybe made up of rectangular patches 7 not so wide as the body of tag 1; as rshown in Fig. 6 it may consist of a single piece 8 folded over the end of the tag; or, as shown in Fig. 7, it may consist of a single piece 9 fastened to one face of the body 1 of the tag. Preferably as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 8, 'the reinforcement 5 is a continuous strip fold so applied as to include in its fold one edge of the sheet 10 from which the bodies 1 are transversely severed; and, also preferably,

the lines of severance 11 take out of the bottoms of edge-notches 12- cut through the folded sheet 5, each edge of the notch serving to define a sloping shoulder at the reinforced end of one of tags to be separated along the line 11.

Holes 14 are punched or otherwise formed through the reinforcements and the bodies 1 of the tags. These holes are preferably symmetrically disposed with respect to the median longitudinal axis of the tag, and rve cooperatively to bear or anchor the attachment filament 15, which may be made as usual of any suitable kind of cordage or wire.

One of the utilities of the tags herein described is to provide forthe retention of the reinforcementj when the body 1 of the tag has been subjected to such rough usage as to tear it awa and in turn,`to provide a. reinforcement or the tag of sufficient size to carry the identifying indicia: for instance, as shown in Fig. 1, the indicia consist of a number also applied to the body 1 of the tag'and each of its coupons 2, and, if desired, of the name and address of the consignee, or other desired identification. It is old in the art to provide a reinforcement longitudinally of the center line of the tag for this purpose having two holes in it through which the attachment filament lis threaded, but I have determined b v experiment that when such a. tag is subjected to undue strain, the bearings between the attachment filament and the edges of the respective holes through which it is threaded are not subjected evenly to the stress tending to tear out the filament or to tear the filament. out of its attachment to the bale, bundle or package to which it is applied. The strength of the tag having the attachment filament anchored in holes lying in the direction of the expected strain is therefore only the strength of the edge of one such hole in relation to the attachment filament: tearing out can begin at one hole, without -much assistance to resist the tearing strain being rendered by the other hole at its engagement with the attachment filament.

I have therefore provided a new structure by which strain between the attachment filament and the patch or reinforcement is distributed evenly between at least two bights of the attachment filament and the edges of a plurality of holes, and thus I y have increased the effective strength of the engagement between the attachment filament and the reinforced place on the tag. This is a consequence, referring now to Fig.

1. of the arrangement of the anchorage holes 14 in the reinforced end of the tag transversely to the longitudinal axis of the tag along which the ultimate stresses come, when the attachment filament 15 is so threaded into the holes 14 as to permit such a longitudinal stress on the ta to be evened or balanced between two big ts of the attachment filament.

While any arrangement of the attachment*- the reinforcement; and then passes behind the reinforcement and thence upward through the right-hand hole 14 (to form another of the bights above referred to). The part of the strand of the filamentous attachment which is to constitute the leg 15b now passes over the margin of the reinforcement, under the` turn at e and up.

The ends of the filament 15 are in use knotted or otherwise fastened together, as usual.

In use it will be apparent that a strain equally borne by the legs 15a and 15", as will be the case, will be transmitted to the bights in the holes 14 equivalently; that great increase of this Strain, approaching the fracture-point of the filament 15, or enough strain to tear out the patch, will still be equally borne, the structure of the return bights and the crossing at e being self-equalizing. Ultimate stress, short of breakage of the strong cord or wire 15, merely results in closing the part e down toward the holes 14, and crumpling the intervening material into hard roll or fold. Moreover, the described crossing at e is such as to avoid any sharp return bend of one bight of the cord or wire over another bight, which would produce an excessive rupturing stress upon the cord or wire at this point; such for instance, as is produced when legssuch as 15, 15b of the cord are passed through a loop, in the usual slipnoose knot by whichcords are attached to ta s.

gIhe arrangement shown in Fig. 3, while the same in principle, differs somewhat in that the left-hand leg f of the cord 15 passes on the face of the tag to the right-hand hole in the patch, (which may, in any of the cases mentioned be reinforced by the usual metal eyelet 17), thence through the righthand hole up to the crossing at e', thence on the face of the tag and over the leg f to and down through the left-hand hole 14; thence on the back of the tag to the Aright of the crossing at e and thence up to constitute the leg g of the cord 15 as so interlooped. The crossing e still, as in the form of Fig. 1, tends to collapse toward the holes 14 under excessive strain; in both forms of the interloopment there is no sudden or sharp return bight of one part of the cordage or wire filament interlocked with another part t0 cause rupture under excessive strain; and. in each case the stress balances between the filament and its anchorage at each of the holes substantially equally.

The described relation of the attachment filament to a tag with a reinforcement and anchorage holes in it in the way illustrated by the species of Fig. 1 and the species of Fig. 3 is moreover valuable in respect to convenience and ease of manufacture. Referring now to Fig. 8, for instance, which illuswill thread the ends a and b through the holes under circumstances which will permit the end a to be taken off' under the extent of filament following the end b, in the direction of arrowm. Similarly the circumstances of this motion facilitate the taking off of the end b after it is passed through its hole 14 in the direction of arrow y between the tag and the bight formed by the middle part of filament 15. The cincture or tie resulting in the structure shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is completed by so threading and taking up the leading ends of the filament, requiring no more than continued pulling on the ends a and Z) to reduce to the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Moreover, the described motions lof the ends a and b of the filament or cord 15, being merely opposite motions in circular paths and motions of transmission in circular arcs, can be performed with facility by automatic threading devices whose motions are of corresponding simplicity; these motions may therefore be performed by machinery of many different types, or edected by hand, with ease and speed. f

The cincture or tie mentioned above and shown `in Fig, 3 is similarly well adapted to formation with ease and speed by hand operations or by simple mechanisms. Referring to Fig. 9 the end a of the cord or wire 15 may be carried through the holes 14 in succession in the helical path represented by arrow z, said path passing upwardly through the near hole 14, outwardly over, and down past the margin of the tag; and thence upwardly through the far hole 14. When the filament 15 has followed this helical path, the end a may be carried through the bight e inthe direction of the arrow f and -the other or following end of Athe strand 1.5 *may be yment filament having therein carried through the bight e in the direction of arrow y', to result in the tie or cincture shown in Fig. 3. These motions are easily performed by simple apparatus, requiring no more than a spiral filament-carrying looper and hooks moving in the respective paths and y', of which many forms will suggest tlrimselves to skilled machine-builders in this a The s ecies of the method shown in Fig. 8 and in ig. 9 respectively have the further advantage of being adapted to be carried out from one edge of the strip of the assembled tags before or after severing on the line 11, and therefore during the progress of the tag blanks through a machine. It will be observed that the operations actually performed upon the filament to thread the tags are operations performed from one side of' the strip, and not requiring the presence of anyl part of mechanism at any point to the right of the line defined by the progress of the holes 14, if it be assumed that the strip of tags is moved in the direction of the arrow w, Fig. l.

What I claim is:

1. A tag having a body, and an attachment filament having therein integral bights severally penetrating and in engagement with the body at separated places, said bights severally extending from the margin of the tag to said places of penetration and engagement.

2. A tag having a body, and an attachintegral bights severally extending from the filament at-a point beyond the edge of the tag, and severally in engagement with the body at places separated in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the body and the general extent of the attachment filament.

3. A tag having a body, a reinforcement and an attachment filament having therein integral bights extending from a point beyond the margin of the tag and severally in engagement with the body and reinforcement at separated places.

4. A tag having a body, a reinforcement, and an attachment filament, the reinforcement and body having therein a plurality of anchorage holes for the said filament, said filament engaging the `anchorage holes severally by bights lying substantially in the direction of expected stress and adapted simultaneously to bear and transmit to the filament strains tending to separate -the tag from the thing to which the filament may be attached.

5. A tag having therein a body, a plurality of anchorage holes arranged transversely to the longitudinal axis of the body, and an attachment filament having bights penetrating the several holes, the filament extending from bi ht to bight, and the several bights exten ing from the margin to said eol ino

holes whereb to cause tensile stress between saidv filament and said body in the general direction of said axis to resisted in common by said bights and their bearing points in the several anchorage holes.

6. A tag having a body, a reinforcement, holes in the reinforced part of the tag, and an attachment filament passing through said holes and around the margin of 4the tag at a point between places of its passage through said holes. l

7. A tag having a body, a reinforcement, holes in the reinforced part of the tag, and an attachment filament passing through said.'

. holes and around the margin of the tag at a point between places of its passage through said holes, the free ends of the attachment filament extending beyond the margin of the tag substantially at said point.

8. A tag having a body, a reinforcement, holes in the reinforced part of the tag, and an attachment filament passing through said filament extending beyond the margin of L the tag substantially at said point, and each extending beneath the said part of the filament iassing around the margin.

l9. tag aving a body, a reinforcement for a portion of the body, and an attachment filament having bights severally engaging different anchorages in said reinforced portion, the filament passing around the margin of the tag at a pont between said bights the body of the tag and the reinforced portion bearing indicia 'of like import, the renforced portion thereby adapted to be 'retained by the attachment pontion thus serving to prevent loss of identifying data if the body of the tag is destroyed.

Signed by me at Boston, Mass., this 5th day of June, 1922.

' HENRY F. SCOTT. 

